Ginger Beer is a slightly deceptive description for this beverage. While it has the assertive ginger punch of other brand in the category it doesn’t share some other key characteristics. For one, nearly all other ginger beers carry a fairly high level of sweetness to balance the ginger heat. Q Ginger Beer comes in dry relying on a small amount of agave as the only sweetener. It turns out that this is by design.
Q Ginger Beer was designed as a mixer. According to the Q Drinks website the company began with a focus on creating high quality mixers for cocktails. That started with a premium tonic water, but they later expanded to other products. I sampled their ginger ale and thought it had a phenomenal balance between sweetness, heat, and other spice flavors. I expected the ginger beer to be similar but with a bit more emphasis on the heat. That’s true, but with an increase of carbonation and a decrease in sweetener it tasted bitter and peppery without a sugary payoff.
I feel like I gave enough of a disclaimer. For what it is, the Q Ginger Beer is pretty awesome. The ginger flavor is bold and fresh, there’s a ton of carbonation (to help it stand up to spirits in a cocktail), and there’s some subtle spicing of lime, coriander, cardamom, and chili peppers that create some layers of flavor. If you want something to drink on its own, go for the Q Ginger Ale, if you want something to mix with something else, you could do much worse than this ginger beer.
As a standalone soda I’m going to give this a 7 out of 10 on my rating scale. Feel free to scour the internet to see how it fares with some actual mixologists. To see my reviews of other Q Drinks click here.
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Sampled in February 2017. Product provided complimentary by Q Drinks in exchange for an honest review.
The Sodafry 
I feel your a bit too harsh on the ginger beer compared to other ones,just a bit,granted I agree that the Q ginger beer with its other flavors inside it doesn’t have that straight up ginger taste as other ginger beers,it does have a kick,but maybe not the full bodied ginger taste like the fever tree one,but I feel like the addition of other flavors does it justice.
I respect and guess its a matter of taste,for instance the fever tree premium ginger beer tastes like sugary tea with fresh ginger a bit,so its a bit more authentic but the sugar is a little too pronounced,whereas the q has that carbonation and a little extra spice notes to make it raw,warm,and powerful.I think extra carbonation is always a great thing,after all you could just let it sit an extra 30 second if its too much,granted it is a mixer so maybe its taste is a bit more designed for it,anyways keep up the reviews. I had hoped there may be more comments.
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